Kath
@kathphillips.bsky.social
Mum, grandma and retired teacher currently attempting to learn to play the saxophone.
The holidays begin. Grandchildren finished school yesterday so off to the splash park today.
July 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The holidays begin. Grandchildren finished school yesterday so off to the splash park today.
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It hurts how accurate this is
![cartoon for the guardian by Stephen Collins - script as follows:
[Scene is a darkened LOFT. Amongst the boxes and junk are FOUR KNACKERED OLD FANS - three tower fans and one circular, with cracked grey plastic and buttons missing. One fan, TOWER FAN 1, is a bit taller than the others, and is addressing them]
1
TOWER FAN 1:
Right lads, get ready.
2
TOWER FAN 1:
This is our time.
3
TOWER FAN 1:
The time when we remember who we are, and why we’re here.
4
TOWER FAN 1:
We are the four crap fans in a British person’s loft,
and we are here to make absolutely no difference whatsoever.
5
TOWER FAN 1:
I know what you’re
thinking, lads:
6
TOWER FAN 1:
Surely this will be the year they finally replace us?
7
TOWER FAN 1:
Our plastic’s gone all brown... I haven’t oscillated since 2018...
8
TOWER FAN 1:
Dave here sounds like a spitfire and blows like a sad cat’s sigh…
TOWER FAN 2:
Cheers mate
9
TOWER FAN 1:
But no. These people are British, and every year, they forget the sun exists.
By the time they remember,
new fans will cost *four million pounds* on Amazon.
10
TOWER FAN 1:
So we’ll be back down there... shovelling thick air across the moaning faces of a species that cannot comprehend the concept of air conditioning, or even just closing the curtains when it’s hot out...
11
TOWER FAN 1:
...while they incessantly bang on about normally hot countries which this country is now temporarily a bit hotter than.
12
[The loft hatch opens and a person comes up the ladder]
PERSON:
APPARENTLY IT’S HOTTER THAN GREECE, LISA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidbpfu2ioghspjcg4xitzv655jzjwp5lgxk5hi3ag7sechgh222ze@jpeg)
June 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
It hurts how accurate this is
Well done Oldham. What a result!
June 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Well done Oldham. What a result!
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It's a hungry Caterpillar!
May 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It's a hungry Caterpillar!
What is eating the leaves on my gooseberry bush?
May 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
What is eating the leaves on my gooseberry bush?
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A glimmer of hope for Labour – its vote share rises to 36% if Reform is its main opponent (via @persuasionuk.bsky.social).
April 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A glimmer of hope for Labour – its vote share rises to 36% if Reform is its main opponent (via @persuasionuk.bsky.social).
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Stupendously interesting, useful - and interactive - chart from @psurridge.bsky.social public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
How voters for each party view the other parties
A Flourish data visualization by Paula Surridge
public.flourish.studio
May 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Stupendously interesting, useful - and interactive - chart from @psurridge.bsky.social public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...
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Hundreds of new homes and industrial space scheme planned near Oldham
Hundreds of new homes and industrial space scheme planned near Oldham
Hundreds of new houses, new public green space and 140,440sq ft of employment floorspace has all been earmarked in a massive redevelopment scheme
dlvr.it
May 1, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Hundreds of new homes and industrial space scheme planned near Oldham
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Sunny spells and warm today. Always cloudier to the north and west and some cloud will bubble up inland at times. Great week of very warm and sunny weather ahead.
April 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Sunny spells and warm today. Always cloudier to the north and west and some cloud will bubble up inland at times. Great week of very warm and sunny weather ahead.
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Major breach on the Macclesfield Canal north of Bosley. The canal and towpath are going to be shut for quite some time.
March 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Major breach on the Macclesfield Canal north of Bosley. The canal and towpath are going to be shut for quite some time.
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The US and Canada mapped at equivalent European latitudes. (via Amazing Maps)
March 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The US and Canada mapped at equivalent European latitudes. (via Amazing Maps)
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I hate the clocks going backwards and forwards. When I was young, we didn’t even have clocks. If we got hungry, we ate each other. We were poor, but we were happy. Good times. Not that we had time. It hadn’t been invented. We had to make our own time out of string and cholera.
March 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I hate the clocks going backwards and forwards. When I was young, we didn’t even have clocks. If we got hungry, we ate each other. We were poor, but we were happy. Good times. Not that we had time. It hadn’t been invented. We had to make our own time out of string and cholera.
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Blimey. One of Nigel Farage's biggest donors, and the owner of 55 Tufton Street, is helping the Russian military effort www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...
March 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Blimey. One of Nigel Farage's biggest donors, and the owner of 55 Tufton Street, is helping the Russian military effort www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...
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With his brief trip to Greenland over, Vance returns to the day job
March 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
With his brief trip to Greenland over, Vance returns to the day job
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Watch seismic waves from the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar ripple across North America.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
March 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Watch seismic waves from the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar ripple across North America.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
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According to #OnlyConnect the flat earth society have members "around the globe"
March 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
According to #OnlyConnect the flat earth society have members "around the globe"
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NEW POD is out. You can watch us in YouTube or find Electoral Dysfunction wherever you get your podcasts. This week, Ruth changes her view on how long Badenoch will survive as the Tory leader’s tenure bumps along. Plus Harriet on Reform & how Trump’s hitting UK politics
youtu.be/DiW4so1YC9Y?...
youtu.be/DiW4so1YC9Y?...
Electoral Dysfunction: Is it already over for Kemi Badenoch?
YouTube video by Sky News
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February 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
NEW POD is out. You can watch us in YouTube or find Electoral Dysfunction wherever you get your podcasts. This week, Ruth changes her view on how long Badenoch will survive as the Tory leader’s tenure bumps along. Plus Harriet on Reform & how Trump’s hitting UK politics
youtu.be/DiW4so1YC9Y?...
youtu.be/DiW4so1YC9Y?...
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My petition about media regulation, including truthfulness and ownership, and covering traditional media and new media such as steaming, video channels and podcasts, has now gone live!
If you want to see improvements of our media, then please sign and share!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
If you want to see improvements of our media, then please sign and share!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Review traditional and social media regulation
Review media regulation, including social media, to consider the introduction of stricter regulations to ensure truthful reporting, accountability and integrity across all platforms, including newspap...
petition.parliament.uk
January 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
My petition about media regulation, including truthfulness and ownership, and covering traditional media and new media such as steaming, video channels and podcasts, has now gone live!
If you want to see improvements of our media, then please sign and share!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
If you want to see improvements of our media, then please sign and share!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Fact:
by replacing your morning coffee with Green tea, you can lose up to 89% of what little joy you still have left in your life.
by replacing your morning coffee with Green tea, you can lose up to 89% of what little joy you still have left in your life.
January 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Fact:
by replacing your morning coffee with Green tea, you can lose up to 89% of what little joy you still have left in your life.
by replacing your morning coffee with Green tea, you can lose up to 89% of what little joy you still have left in your life.
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It is so sad that my intelligent, 14 Yr old granddaughter can no longer attend school as she can't walk. The waiting list to see the consultant is 15 weeks. Too much time without education at this important time. Why doesn't her future matter?
January 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
It is so sad that my intelligent, 14 Yr old granddaughter can no longer attend school as she can't walk. The waiting list to see the consultant is 15 weeks. Too much time without education at this important time. Why doesn't her future matter?
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Thanks to @jamesomalley.co.uk for endorsing this idea on his Substack (which you should follow, btw). open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...
January 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Thanks to @jamesomalley.co.uk for endorsing this idea on his Substack (which you should follow, btw). open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...